Thursday Tutorial

Thursday Tutorial – Couponing with Kids in Tow.

March 11, 2010

This Thursday Tutorial was inspired by the following comment I received from Cheap & Sweet in regards to doing 5 transactions at Walgreens with all 4 of my kids. You are a better woman than me! I would not go near a walgreens with 4 kids and 5 transactions in mind. I’ve also heard similar statements from [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – What to Do with All those Expired Coupons

January 28, 2010

I received an e-mail today from Lipstick to Crayons asking what was the best thing to do with expired coupons. I know my first thought, and yours probably, is to just throw them in the recylcing bin. However, you shouldn’t do that. Your garbage/recycling will help people in the military since they are allowed to use [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – Printing Internet Coupons in different Web Browsers

October 8, 2009

Do you have problems printing some internet coupons, especially brick coupons? Here’s a solution that should help fix the problem I use Interent Explorer so when I post a link it is usally in that format. If you use FireFox or Safari you may get the error “Please wait…” or “Please Install the Coupon Printer” [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – Checking your receipt just might make you money

July 2, 2009

After your done checking out your groceries do you automatically stuff the receipt in your purse or bag? Well after reading this you may not and instead take a moment and look at it. I ended up getting a 6 pack of paper towel FREE yesterday by just doing this. As a coupon shopper, I [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – Understanding the fine print on the coupon

May 28, 2009

Have you ever read the fine print on a coupon? It can actually be pretty intimidating. This Thursday Tutorial will help interpret all the “official” language and give you the know-how so you won’t be intimidated and hopefully won’t run into problems at the register. Do Not Double or Triple Language on a coupon that [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – Creating a Grocery Price Book

May 7, 2009

As I mentioned in my Coupon “High” trip to Shop ‘N Save a price book is a great way to know if a sale is really a good or super sale. Today’s Thursday Tutorial will help you create a Grocery Price Book that can save you 1000′s. A price book is a basically list of [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – Coupon Myths

April 23, 2009

Did you know that in 2008 Manufacturers put out $350 billion in coupon savings, but only $2.6 billion of them were used? This means that less than 1 percent of the available coupons are used. In my opinion this is just like throwing away free money and why would anyone want to throw away money? [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – CVS 101 Part 2

April 16, 2009

In Part 1 of CVS 101 you learned how to get CVS Extra Care Bucks (ECBs) and other CVS Coupons. This week’s Thursday Tutorial will discuss how to make the most of them. The best way to maximize your ECBs is to “roll” them. If you buy something that earns ECBs try to use those [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – CVS 101

April 9, 2009

Before I started serious couponing a couple years ago, the only time I would go into drugstores was when I had a prescription to pick up. I thought that they were overpriced on everything. Boy was I wrong! If you know how to work the system you can get cleaning, baby, health and beauty items [...]

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Thursday Tutorial – How Many Papers To Buy

April 2, 2009

As I mentioned in my first Thursday Tutorial most of the coupons come from the Sunday Inserts in the paper. So how do you decide how many papers to buy each week. I routinely buy 2 papers a week. However some weeks I may change this and buy more or less. I use 2 criteria [...]

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